Intellectual types often find basic household chores as the kind of things that aren’t worth wasting their time and smarts on, not when there are more interesting / important things to do.
Cooking is applied chemistry, and at the higher levels, it’s art.
I categorize cooking as an organizational skill—I have some ingredients, and I’m going to arrange them in a way that suits me. The algorithms I engage aren’t that different from the ones that come into play when I organize the junk on my desk.
I don’t dispute that. Nonetheless it easily gets emotionally tagged as “boring chore”, even if it could be made interesting once you overcame that emotional tag.
Cooking is applied chemistry, and at the higher levels, it’s art.
I categorize cooking as an organizational skill—I have some ingredients, and I’m going to arrange them in a way that suits me. The algorithms I engage aren’t that different from the ones that come into play when I organize the junk on my desk.
A task many people also find boring and painful, sadly.
I see it as a process. The few things I can cook and cook regularly I tend to optimize to their absolute minimum effort needed.
I don’t dispute that. Nonetheless it easily gets emotionally tagged as “boring chore”, even if it could be made interesting once you overcame that emotional tag.